Wednesday June 28, 2006
Six student bullies held
By NELSON BENJAMIN
KOTA TINGGI: Police have nabbed six secondary school students whose act of beating up a student was posted on the Internet.
OCPD Supt Jamaluddin Md Yusoff said the six were arrested in a series of raids around the district late Monday.
“We will record their statements and release them to their parents on police bail,” he said.
Supt Jamaluddin said the six boys, aged between 13 and 15, were from the same school as the victim.
As for the motive behind the attack, he did not rule out the possibility that the boys were angered when the victim refused to join a secret society.
Supt Jamaluddin said this year alone there had been four cases of fighting in the same school.
“We will be paying serious attention and sending our officers to visit the school to meet with the parent-teacher association and the students,” he said, adding that police liaison officers were required to visit each school in the district on a regular basis.
The attack received worldwide attention when the footage – purportedly showing the entire incident, which lasted four minutes – was uploaded onto an Internet site.
The website has had thousands of hits.
In Penang, Deputy Education Minister Datuk Noh Omar told Bernama that seven of the students involved in the incident had been expelled from school.
“The school principal has the full authority to expel the bullies,” added Noh, who is the chairman of the Students Discipline Committee.
He said the parents of the expelled students could appeal to the state Education Department.
He said the students must also attend a rehabilitation programme while their appeals were being processed.
Noh said the facilitator of the programme would evaluate the students' rehabilitation and submit a report on their progress to the department.
“Once expelled, a student would not be allowed to attend the same school again even if his appeal was approved,” he said.
Noh said that based on reports he had received, the incident took place in a classroom at about 1pm on June 16, involving 12 Form One and Form Two students. The students were attending a co-curriculum programme.
Noh said the other five students involved were also being investigated and if found guilty, would be suspended.
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